G.Spencer Compton was the eldest child of Edward Alfred Frederick Compton and Agnes Maria Mitchell. He was the first child born in the young town of Southern Cross, where his father was the mining registrar.

He was educated at Perth Boys School, and studied metallurgy at the West Australian School of Mines. At the beginning of 1914, he was a metallurgist at the gold mine at Youanmi, located between Southern Cross and Sandstone in the Yilgarn of Western Australia. It was at that time that he married Elizabeth Jane Cobley, a Welsh girl who had been brought to the Goldfields by her father about a decade previously.

Spencer and Betty had four children - George, Joan, Ailsa and David.

The telluride in the above photograph later became Charles's property. However, it was stolen during a housebreaking in 1990, by someone who knew what they were looking for...

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